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Minecraft Coming to Xbox with Kinect

This fall, says Microsoft, indie favorite Minecraft will be coming to Xbox, complete with Kinect motion controls.

These are the New Xbox Live Television Features

Let’s face it: the television remote is so yesterday. As anticipated, Xbox Live’s Marc Whitten has taken the stage at Microsoft’s keynote address to describe and promote some of the features we can expect from the company’s new Xbox Live TV functionality. Voice-Controlled No more buttons, no more joysticks. Users will be able to access…

Check Out a Little Slice of Ninja Gaiden 3

As fast and as bloody as ever, here’s the trailer of Ninja Gaiden 3. Click to view

Spider Man: Edge of Time Swings By With New E3 Screens

Activision has delivered a new batch of screens for their upcoming super hero actioner Spider Man: Edge of Time The title is due to launch this Fall for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. For more information, check out the HeroHQ community on Facebook.

Spyro’s Back in This Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure Trailer

Bringing toys and games together, Skylanders uses a platform to sync action figures to your game.

You May Not Want to Watch This Footage of Kinect Star Wars

Not if you care about video games. Or Star Wars Don’t just take note of the lag present when Kinect evangelist Kudo Tsunoda swings his lightsaber. Take a look at when he “jumps”, and his on-screen jedi doesn’t begin to somersault until Kudo has already landed. Oh dear. You can check out a slicker, less…

Xbox 360 Still Selling Strong, Says Press Release That Guarantees No Xbox 3 at E3

From a Microsoft press release: Microsoft has now sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles across 38 countries and sales are accelerating. Xbox 360 maintains its lead in the U.S. as the top selling console in 2011, and ten of the past eleven months. In the first four months of 2011, Xbox 360 has seen a…

These Ninja Gaiden 3 Screenshots Aren’t For the Squeamish

This week’s Famitsu features some new screens from Ninja Gaiden 3. According to Andriasang, the upcoming article says that the game is “30% complete” and will be ready for release in 2012. [Famitsu]

When a Great Demo Hides a Bad Game

In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Dracosummoner talks about a game that sold him with its demo and then let him down in full release. Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever played a demo that you absolutely loved, one that instantly convinced you to go out and play the real game…

Watch the Cars of Dirt 3 Skid Along the Mediterranean

Ah, Monaco. A charming Principality, famous for its azure harbors, Grace Kelly and…car rallies. Lots and lots of car rallies. The folks over at Codemasters would like to invite you to this car-racing paradise in their newest gameplay trailer for Dirt 3, giving a glimpse of the title’s Rallycross, Gymkhana and Head 2 Head stages.…

Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale: Hacking, Slashing, Looting and Leveling

Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale, released this week, provides a fun (if somewhat predictable) dose of RPG action based on D&D 4th edition rules. Team up with friends to save the Dalelands from the Zhentarim threat, and see how many times you laugh out loud at the stilted dialogue. Daggerdale is a straightforward hack and slash…

Some Parts of Dragon Age II “Must be Improved” In Dragon Age III

Dragon Age II was, for many, a bit of a disappointment. Too many recycled environments, too many cheap waves of bad guys to chop through. It was, you could argue, a bit of a rush job If it makes you feel any better, developers BioWare have heard your complaints. On the company’s forums, writer Mike…

One of the Fathers of the Xbox is Back In the Games Business

Seamus Blackley, formerly of Looking Glass and one of the key men involved in Microsoft’s original Xbox project, has quit his job at a talent agency and will be coming back to the games business. Not that he ever really left, as in his time at Creative Artists Agency he helped manage clients like Call…

This is What Alice Looks Like Before She Tears You a New Asshole

If you happen to wander across sweet Alice during her travels in Wonderland and she should happen to flash red, white, and red all over, you’re probably going to die. This is Hysteria. Similar to the powerful effects of the Rage Box from American McGee’s Alice, the Hysteria power in Alice: Madness Returns infuses our…

Look At All The Things Hal Jordan Can Make in Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters

Frankly speaking, I don’t know what else you’d need to make besides a sword or a plane, so I’m sold. Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters will be in stores on June 7th

Last Xbox Creator Leaves Microsoft (and Why That’s Depressing)

Entertainment & Devices is the division of Microsoft that makes the cool shit. Xbox, Zune, Windows Phone. Courier. J. Allard was its figurehead for years. He left. And now Otto Berkes, the last original Xbox founder, is gone too As the Seattle Times reports, Berkes didn’t just help create the Xbox, along with Ted Hase…

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2010 Promises?

Can you believe the hype you hear from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo at each year’s big E3 circus of video games? Year after year, the big three make promises about their consoles and their games. Do they deliver? Each year, we check. Microsoft, last year we had to scold you for some of your unbelievable…

If You’ve Never Played Halo: Reach, Now’s Your Chance

There’s a new Halo: Reach single and multiplayer demo available on Xbox Live today, coinciding with a week-long $39.99 sale on the Games on Demand version. If you’ve been waiting eight months for a price drop, your time is now.

There you are, LEGO Portal Turret!

Here’s a lovely little Instructable that shows how to make a Portal turret out of our favorite plastic building bricks suitable for desk or headboard. Now you’re thinking with elements. LEGO Portal Turret Instructions [Instructables.com (Thanks, Kyle!)]